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‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gambling has nothing to do with gaming. And those ”games“ are just dopamine ticklers. They are like the South Park game “heroine hero“ https://youtu.be/w6tyKwEdpP4 (Sadly a YouTube link, because I am very lazy and this was the first one that satisfied me)

The only type of gambling in games I like is like in ”a hat in time“ where you have a finite number of stuff you can get out of the gatcha machine and much more of the credits it needs.